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Alzheimer's Disease - Dementia

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NEWS:

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ARTICLES:

AHRQ-American Academy of Neurology (AAN) Guideline Summary for Clinicians: Detection, Diagnosis and Management of Dementia

AHRQ-American Academy of Neurology (AAN) Guideline Summary for Patients and Their Families: Alzheimer's Disease

Aromatherapy for agitation in severe dementia

NGC-Caregiving strategies for older adults with delirium, dementia and depression.

Reversible Causes Of Memory Change

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

A longitudinal study of Alzheimer's disease: rates of cognitive and functional decline. (Int J Geriatr Psychiatry)

A novel system of electronic tagging in patients with dementia and wandering (Age and Ageing)

Age-related myelin breakdown: a developmental model of cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease. (Neurobiol Aging)

Agitation in Alzheimer's disease is a manifestation of frontal lobe dysfunction. (Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord)

Alpha lipoic acid for dementia. (Cochrane Database Syst Rev)

Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis and therapeutic interventions. (J Clin Neurosci)

Alzheimer disease without neocortical neurofibrillary tangles (NEUROLOGY)

Alzheimer's disease: the two-hit hypothesis. (Lancet Neurol)

Annual Rate and Predictors of Conversion to Dementia in Subjects Presenting Mild Cognitive Impairment Criteria Defined according to a Population-Based Study. (Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord)

Apple juice prevents oxidative stress induced by amyloid-beta in culture. (J Alzheimers Dis)

Association between statin use and Alzheimer's disease. (Neuroepidemiology)

Aspirin, NSAIDs, risk of dementia, and influence of the apolipoprotein E epsilon 4 allele in an elderly population. (Neuroepidemiology)

Association between Statin Use and Alzheimer's Disease (Neuroepidemiology)

Calcium channel blockers and risk of AD: the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. (Neurobiol Aging)

Cerebral amyloid angiopathy plays a direct role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease; Pro-CAA position statement. (Neurobiol Aging)

Cobalamin: a critical vitamin in the elderly. (Prev Med)

Cognitive ability in childhood and cognitive decline in mid-life: longitudinal birth cohort study (BMJ)

Conceptualization of mild cognitive impairment: a review. (Int J Geriatr Psychiatry)

Contribution of glial cells to the development of amyloid plaques in Alzheimer's disease. (Neurobiol Aging)

Convergence of atherosclerosis and Alzheimer's disease: inflammation, cholesterol, and misfolded proteins. (Lancet)

Correlation of Entorhinal Amyloid with Memory in Alzheimer's and Vascular but Not Lewy Body Dementia (Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders 2005)

Curcumin inhibits formation of Abeta oligomers and fibrils and binds plaques and reduces amyloid in vivo. (J Biol Chem)

Curcumin, the active constituent of turmeric, inhibits amyloid peptide-induced cytochemokine gene expression and CCR5-mediated chemotaxis of THP-1 monocytes by modulating early growth response-1 transcription factor. (J Neurochem)

Delayed recall, hippocampal volume and Alzheimer neuropathology (NEUROLOGY)

Dementia as a window to the neurology of art. (Med Hypotheses)

Dementia severity and Lewy bodies affect circadian rhythms in Alzheimer disease. (Neurobiol Aging)

Dementia: The leading predictor of death in a defined elderly population (NEUROLOGY)

Depression in Patients With Mild Cognitive Impairment Increases the Risk of Developing Dementia of Alzheimer Type (Arch Neurol)

Depressive symptoms increase the likelihood of cognitive impairment in elderly people with subclinical Alzheimer pathology. (Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord. 2005)

Diet and Alzheimer's Disease: What the Evidence Shows (Medscape General Medicine)

Different mechanisms of corpus callosum atrophy in Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia. (J Neurol)

Dissociation of numbers and objects in corticobasal degeneration and semantic dementia (NEUROLOGY)

Docosahexaenoic Acid protects from dendritic pathology in an Alzheimer's disease mouse model. (Neuron)

Does cognitive status modify the relationship between education and mortality? Evidence from the Canadian Study of Health and Aging. (Int Psychogeriatr)

Early vitamin E supplementation in young but not aged mice reduces Abeta levels and amyloid deposition in a transgenic model of Alzheimer's disease. (FASEB J)

Education and the course of cognitive decline in Alzheimer disease (NEUROLOGY)

Educational level influences regional cerebral blood flow in patients with Alzheimer's disease. (J Nucl Med)

Effect of antioxidant flavanone, naringenin, from Citrus junoson neuroprotection. (J Agric Food Chem.)

Effect of Vitamins C and E on cognitive function in mouse. (Pharmacol Res)

Effect of White Matter Changes on Cognitive Impairment in Patients With Lacunar Infarcts. (Stroke)

Enlarged perivascular spaces are associated with cognitive function in healthy elderly men. (J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry)

Executive Dysfunction in Alzheimer Disease (Arch Neurol)

Executive Function: The Core Feature of Dementia? (Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders)

Folate and brain function in the elderly. (Curr Opin Clin Nutr Metab Care)

Glucose improvement of memory: a review. (Eur J Pharmacol)

[Hallucinations and dementia; prevalence, clinical presentation and pathophysiology] (Rev Neurol (Paris))

Helicobacter pylori and Alzheimer's disease: a possible link. (Eur J Intern Med)

Higher atrophy rate of entorhinal cortex than hippocampus in AD (NEUROLOGY)

Hippocampal size and memory function in the ninth and tenth decades of life: the Sydney Older Persons Study (Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry)

Homocysteine and cognitive function in elderly people (CMAJ)

Impact of estrogen therapy on Alzheimer's disease: a fork in the road? (CNS Drugs)

Incidence and prevalence of dementia in the Cardiovascular Health Study. (J Am Geriatr Soc)

Increased Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in Alzheimer Disease (Diabetes)

Inflammatory proteins in plasma and the risk of dementia: the rotterdam study. (Arch Neurol)

Is Alzheimer's disease a neurodegenerative or a vascular disorder? Data, dogma, and dialectics. (Lancet Neurol)

Lipid peroxidation and oxidative imbalance: early functional events in Alzheimer's disease. (J Alzheimers Dis)

[Loss of motivation and frontal dysfunction. Role of the white matter change] (Encephale)

Medial Temporal Hypoperfusion and Aggression in Alzheimer Disease (Arch Neurol)

Memory complaints in nondemented men predict future pathologic diagnosis of Alzheimer disease (NEUROLOGY)

Metabolic interaction between ApoE genotype and onset age in Alzheimer's disease: implications for brain reserve. (J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2005)

Midlife dietary intake of antioxidants and risk of late-life incident dementia: the Honolulu-Asia Aging Study. (Am J Epidemiol)

More than the epidemiology of Alzheimer's disease: contributions of the Canadian Study of Health and Aging. (Can J Psychiatry)

Mutations causing neurodegenerative tauopathies. (Biochim Biophys Acta. 2005)

Neurofibrillary Tangles Mediate the Association of Amyloid Load With Clinical Alzheimer Disease and Level of Cognitive Function (Arch Neurol)

Neuroinflammatory perspectives on the two faces of Alzheimer's disease. (J Neural Transm)

Neuropsychology of cognitive ageing, minimal cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's disease, and vascular cognitive impairment. (Eur J Pharmacol)

Oxidative stress in Alzheimer's and vascular dementias: masking of the antioxidant profiles by a concomitant Type II diabetes mellitus condition. (J Neurol Sci)

Oxidative stress in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer disease: A continuum. (J Alzheimers Dis)

Patients with Alzheimer's disease may be particularly susceptible to adverse effects of statins. (Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord)

Plasma Antioxidant Status, Immunoglobulin G Oxidation and Lipid Peroxidation in Demented Patients: Relevance to Alzheimer Disease and Vascular Dementia (Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders)

Plasma homocysteine concentration relates to the severity but not to the duration of Alzheimer's disease (International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry)

Plasma homocysteine levels and risk of Alzheimer disease (NEUROLOGY)

Plasma testosterone levels in Alzheimer and Parkinson diseases (NEUROLOGY)

Postmenopausal hormone therapy and Alzheimer's disease risk: interaction with age. (J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2005)

Predictive Accuracy of MCI Subtypes for Alzheimer's Disease and Vascular Dementia in Subjects with Mild Cognitive Impairment: A 2-Year Follow-Up Study. (Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord)

[Prevention of dementia (including Alzheimer's disease)] (Gesundheitswesen)

Psychosis of Alzheimer's disease: clinical characteristics and history. (J Psychiatr Res)

Redox-active metals, oxidative stress, and Alzheimer's disease pathology. (Ann N Y Acad Sci)

Relationship between cognitive function and regional cerebral blood flow in different types of dementia. (Disabil Rehabil)

Right prosubiculum amyloid plaque density correlates with anosognosia in Alzheimer's disease. (J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry)

Role of hydrogen peroxide in the aetiology of Alzheimer's disease: implications for treatment. (Drugs Aging)

Semantic Memory Impairment in the Earliest Phases of Alzheimer's Disease (Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders)

Serum lipids and hippocampal volume: the link to Alzheimer's disease? (Ann Neurol)

Serum Testosterone Levels in Males with Alzheimer's Disease (Journal of Neuroendocrinology)

Some observations on the spectrum of dementia. (Neurol India)

Survival after initial diagnosis of Alzheimer disease. (Ann Intern Med)

Tau pathology in Alzheimer disease and other tauopathies. (Biochim Biophys Acta. 2005)

Temporal relation between depression and cognitive impairment in old age: prospective population based study (BMJ)

The course of cognitive decline in older persons: results from the longitudinal aging study amsterdam. (Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord)

The Natural History of Alzheimer Disease (Arch Neurol)

The relationship between non-cognitive symptoms and functional impairment in Alzheimer's disease. (Int J Geriatr Psychiatry)

Thinning of the Cerebral Cortex in Aging (Cerebral Cortex)

Total homocysteine and cognition in a tri-ethnic cohort (NEUROLOGY )

Utilization of cognitive support in episodic free recall as a function of apolipoprotein E and vitamin B12 or folate among adults aged 75 years and older. (Neuropsychology)

Vitamin B12 and Folate Depletion. Clinical Evidence in a Neurological Population. (Neurologist)

What's in a name: voxel-based morphometric analyses of MRI and naming difficulty in Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementia and corticobasal degeneration. (Brain)

White matter changes in early-onset Alzheimer's disease brains (Geriatrics and Gerontology International)

INTERNET SITES:

NIH-Alzheimer's Disease

NIH-Alzheimer's Disease

NIH-Alzheimer's Disease Resources

NIH-Caring for Someone with Alzheimer's

NIH-Dementia

NIH-Medical Encyclopedia Alzheimer's Disease

NIH-National Institute on Aging

NIH-NIA ADEAR

NIH-NINDS Alzheimer's Disease Information Page

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